The Democrat who said she wanted to give a Republican colleague’s family a “broth of Legionella” so they would “ultimately die” during a heated debate apologized, but won’t resign.

Democratic Aurora State Rep. Stephanie Kifowit, a veteran, directed the remarks at Lombard Republican state Rep. Peter Breen during a successful veto override debate Tuesday on a bill to increase the Court of Claims payout limit from $100,000 to $2 million. Breen opposed the bill.

“To the representative from Lombard, I would like to make him a broth of Legionella and pump it into the water system of [his] loved one so that they can be infected, they can be mistreated, they can sit and suffer by getting aspirin instead of being properly treated and ultimately die,” Kifowit said on the House floor.

Kifowit had dismissed calls Tuesday for an apology on the floor, but said she was sorry her comments were misinterpreted.

On Wednesday, she changed course.

“I do apologize for my poor word choice and for the personal way the statement came across,” Kifowit said. “It was not personal and it was not meant any ill will to anyone at all.”

The House has taken the rare step of erasing the comments from the record, voting 110-0 Wednesday to expunge the statement by Kifowit.

The state’s Republican Party Chairman Tim Schneider called for Kifowit to resign.

“Illinois Democrats sunk to a new low, when … Kifowit wished death upon family members/loved ones of her Republican colleague,” Schneider said in a statement. “Kifowit should be ashamed of her remarks.” Schneider continued, “As leading Illinois Democrats, both Governor-elect [J.B.] Pritzker and Speaker Michael Madigan have a duty to speak out against Rep. Kifowit’s extreme rhetoric and tone down out-of-control public discourse. They should do so immediately.”